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I've been working with Deepseek V4 Flash (with opencode as the harness). It's been almost indistinguishable from Codex / Claude Code for me. I'm sure I'll run i

I've been working with Deepseek V4 Flash (with opencode as the harness). It's been almost indistinguishable from Codex / Claude Code for me. I'm sure I'll run into problems when I get to a stickier ticket to tackle. But so far, it's been quite good, and I find it writes straightforward code. I do think the Chinese models are good enough for an 80/20 rule use case.

scottchiefbaker 4mo ago
I tried Deepseek V4 Flash with very low expectations and was pleasantly surprised. It's a surprisingly capable model for the price.
- timcobb 4mo ago
  What provider(s) do you use?
  - saaspirant 4mo ago
    Not op but I use their official platform. Cheapest token top-up is $2.12
nunodonato 4mo ago
it would be a really great option if it didn't lack vision
- cromka 4mo ago
  For coding?
  - nunodonato 4mo ago
    reading pdfs
- RugnirViking 4mo ago
  what do you use vision for? I have failed to find a workflow with it that makes sense, asking it to review screenshots of websites or whatever it misses extremely obvious details like text flowing out of it's container/overlapping other text, things being in entirely the wrong place, etc.
  - bckr 4mo ago
    What models have you tried? Gemini 3.1 pro has vision capable of reading my sloppy diaries from 10 years ago, down to small glyphs and doodles.
    - RugnirViking 4mo ago
      I mean they mostly work for OCR, I meant in a coding context.
  - nunodonato 4mo ago
    reading pdfs
- pizzafeelsright 4mo ago
  this is mcp or custom call to lowest cost model someone did a webcam + agentic + capture of other computer bios/boot -> upload to image model -> back to agent
solarkraft 4mo ago
I use Pro because I’m insensitive to the price difference, but also found Flash very capable in OpenCode.
mark_l_watson 4mo ago
I also use DeepSeek v4 flash and v4 pro, but I can’t settle between using Claude Code or OpenCode and it seems like I waste time switching back and forth (especially keeping my personal SKILLs files synced). On one hand, a ton of engineering work has gone into Claude Code, on the other hand all Chinese models I have tried with OpenCode seem well configured out of the box. I was thrilled to have Gemini Ultra for a month and use as many Opus tokens with AntiGravity as I could use, but I am happier using less capable models like DeepSeek knowing that it is more fun to do more of the work myself, it is a smaller hit on the environment, and incredibly cheaper.
vagrantJin 4mo ago
That v4 quality is available to everyone in the world for a pittance is beyond remarkable.
redmalang 4mo ago
We have switched approx 80% of our work to deepseek, and it works great. Our setup is a bit unconventional though, we upload all cot / sessions to shared storage and generate centralised project level context. We've found this is helpful in directing and working with these slightly less sota models and getting great value for ai spend. I'm planning to open source all this infra soon, hopefully useful for others too.

scottchiefbaker 4mo ago

I tried Deepseek V4 Flash with very low expectations and was pleasantly surprised. It's a surprisingly capable model for the price.

timcobb 4mo ago
What provider(s) do you use?
- saaspirant 4mo ago
  Not op but I use their official platform. Cheapest token top-up is $2.12

nunodonato 4mo ago

it would be a really great option if it didn't lack vision

cromka 4mo ago
For coding?
- nunodonato 4mo ago
  reading pdfs
RugnirViking 4mo ago
what do you use vision for? I have failed to find a workflow with it that makes sense, asking it to review screenshots of websites or whatever it misses extremely obvious details like text flowing out of it's container/overlapping other text, things being in entirely the wrong place, etc.
- bckr 4mo ago
  What models have you tried? Gemini 3.1 pro has vision capable of reading my sloppy diaries from 10 years ago, down to small glyphs and doodles.
  - RugnirViking 4mo ago
    I mean they mostly work for OCR, I meant in a coding context.
- nunodonato 4mo ago
  reading pdfs
pizzafeelsright 4mo ago
this is mcp or custom call to lowest cost model someone did a webcam + agentic + capture of other computer bios/boot -> upload to image model -> back to agent

solarkraft 4mo ago

I use Pro because I’m insensitive to the price difference, but also found Flash very capable in OpenCode.

mark_l_watson 4mo ago

I also use DeepSeek v4 flash and v4 pro, but I can’t settle between using Claude Code or OpenCode and it seems like I waste time switching back and forth (especially keeping my personal SKILLs files synced). On one hand, a ton of engineering work has gone into Claude Code, on the other hand all Chinese models I have tried with OpenCode seem well configured out of the box. I was thrilled to have Gemini Ultra for a month and use as many Opus tokens with AntiGravity as I could use, but I am happier using less capable models like DeepSeek knowing that it is more fun to do more of the work myself, it is a smaller hit on the environment, and incredibly cheaper.

vagrantJin 4mo ago

That v4 quality is available to everyone in the world for a pittance is beyond remarkable.

redmalang 4mo ago

We have switched approx 80% of our work to deepseek, and it works great. Our setup is a bit unconventional though, we upload all cot / sessions to shared storage and generate centralised project level context. We've found this is helpful in directing and working with these slightly less sota models and getting great value for ai spend. I'm planning to open source all this infra soon, hopefully useful for others too.